Fishing: Luke Jennings
14 November 2010 // Luke Jennings; Pike
STOP PRESS: very short notice this but Luke is having a ‘do’ in central London on Monday the 15th. He’ll be talking about his memoir ‘Blood Knots’ and he’ll be joined by Caught by the River contributors John Andrews, Charles Rangeley and David Profumo. It’s at a restaurant in Marylebone, there’s a talk and drink [...]
Pike: Luke Jennnings
8 October 2010 // Luke Jennings; Pike
STOP PRESS: Luke will be reading from Blood Knots tonight at Holkham Hall – Stable Cafe, Norfolk. Also on the bill are fellow Caught by the River contributors John Andrews, Charles Rangeley and David Profumo. Originally published in the London ES Magazine October 10, 1998. There’s a scene in Bertrand Blier’s film Les Valseuses which [...]
Pike: Luke Jennings
3 September 2010 // Luke Jennings; Pike
Originally published in the London ES magazine on the 6th of February, 1998. The alarm goes off at 4.30am and I dress with care; the forecast has promised Siberian winds and snow. I meet Marco Pierre White in Knightsbridge, we pick up David Profumo outside Barkers, and head off down the M3; we were aiming [...]
Pike: Luke Jennings
13 August 2010 // Luke Jennings; Pike
Originally published in the London ES magazine on the 31st of October, 1997. Sunshine, at the time of writing, and the warmth of summer still on the water. The season is under way, but until that first freeze knocks back the weeds and the pike move into their deep water, sport will be slow. In [...]
Pike: Luke Jennings
9 July 2010 // Luke Jennings; Pike
Originally published in the London ES magazine on the 31st of January, 1997. Last week I had a day on a Central London water with Bill the Vet. It was mournful and windy and cold as hell, but there had been whispers of a big pike taken there. These seemed to be confirmed by the [...]
Pike: Luke Jennings
25 June 2010 // Luke Jennings; Pike
Originally published in the London ES magazine on the 13th of December, 1996. This column, as I hoped it would, has stirred some childhood memories. Among those who have written to me is James Gunn, the son of one of the gamekeepers at Kenwood House before the war. Like the others of his five-strong gang [...]
Pike: Luke Jennings
28 May 2010 // Luke Jennings; Pike
in 1998 i was working at creation records on what i shall loosely term the escape committee. we helped people escape from their daily lives by selling them pop music. i became obsessed with escape at that time, and my own came in the form of a newspaper column published every other friday in the [...]
